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Manager of RE PE investment funds (multifamily & student housing), politically centrist, immigrant, husband, father

Chicago, IL ✶✶✶✶

Joined February 2012

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@AJManaseer

A.J. Manaseer

17 days

It has been 18 months to the day since I wrote this thread the night that our corrupted, inept, embarrassing Mayor won election. Unfortunately but not unexpectedly, it has all come true already save for the few thousand migrant kids keeping the CPS headcount from dropping.

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A.J. Manaseer

2 years

Here’s what’s going to happen to Chicago now. 1. The middle class, families, and the wealthy will accelerate their exodus. Suburbs, but mostly other states, will benefit.

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2 months

Ken Griffin is going to fail at making Miami a major financial hub. It was a rash decision on his part to pull Citadel from Chicago; a decision based on political resentment and not sound business judgment. The problem is human capital. The vibe in Miami does not mesh with

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Two years after opening it, the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has exited its Miami office

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14 days

Are you fucking kidding me? This man is equating fiscal responsibility with owning slaves? Every single politician in Illinois should be outraged and demand an apology. This man is insane.

@CPD1617Scanner

16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner

@CPD1617Scanner

14 days

#Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claims that NOT taking out a costly loan to pay for CTU contractual demands at a time Chicago Public Schools has a financial deficit is like slavery.

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Only in Chicago can the teachers union claim they are underpaid while being the best paid in the nation on a COL basis and understaffed while growing headcount 20% following a 10% student enrollment decline. The problem with CPS is neither staffing nor resources - it is of

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The Chicago Teachers Union doesn’t have a “librarian” problem. They have a student problem.

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5 months

@SirajAHashmi But is this like a Science Olympiad situation where are the American dudes were just 2nd generation Indian/Pakistani dudes?

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2 years

Here’s what’s going to happen to Chicago now. 1. The middle class, families, and the wealthy will accelerate their exodus. Suburbs, but mostly other states, will benefit.

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6 months

Something’s fishy with this Foxtrot/Dom’s news. Any merger entails a tremendous amount of due diligence. And it seems unlikely an industry veteran like Bob Mariano would be so derelict as to miss signs that this entity wouldn’t be viable just 6 months after merging. My money

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3 months

I cannot recall a better stretch of economic wins for Chicago and Illinois than has occurred over the past year. It is indisputable that @GovPritzker is a powerhouse when it comes to attracting new, high-tech industry to the State. Chicago is positioned to become the capital

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PsiQuantum

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We’re thrilled to partner with Illinois @GovPritzker + @ChicagosMayor to announce that @PsiQuantum will anchor the new Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park and build the first US-based utility-scale quantum computer in Chicago, Illinois.

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3 months

The Augusta Bike Lane in its natural state… (totally unused). I saw one guy use it last week. Since then, zero. And this is all in peak cycling weather. Imagine during the rest of year. I invite any of Chicago’s leading bike advocates to come sit with me there for an hour

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4 months

We as a region need to drag whoever dreamt up the 90/94 construction project in front of a tribunal to answer for crimes against humanity. There has got to be a better way.

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11 days

Holy shit I hadn’t seen video of this before. He answers this question about the $80K redecorating bill hemming and hawing like a guilty man confronted with undeniable evidence of his guilt. I will be surprised if Johnson finishes out his term.

@SubxNews

SubX.News

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was asked about the $80,000 spent on renovations for the First Lady’s office. #Chicago #government #Corruption

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A.J. Manaseer

7 months

We fucking win. And it’s a clean sweep. BCH loses badly 🙅🏻‍♂️ EOB wins ✅ (margin too high for mail-in to change things) Larry Rogers in at BOR ✅ And while I’m disappointed for my friend Ray Lopez, I’m glad we get to keep him in the City Council as a much needed voice of

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2 years

Chicago’s most effective violence interrupter.

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9 months

Between single-handedly reviving the carjacking industry in Chicago with her demand that teens go unpunished (resulting in a 6-fold increase in carjackings), to foisting Kim Foxx upon us, to spawning and promoting Brandon Johnson, there is no single person who has wreaked more

@ChicagoContrar1

Chicago Contrarian

@ChicagoContrar1

9 months

Boss Toni isn't lying here. Ideology only matters, which is why Clayton Harris is her choice. In 2016, Toni gave us Kim Foxx and Foxx's policies unleashed a crime wave. A man with no experience as a prosecutor, if Harris is elected, Chicago will be brought to its knees.

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A.J. Manaseer

7 months

Imagine a place like Buckingham Fountain with a beer garden, ice cream, hot dogs etc. So many of our public spaces are leaving city revenue on the table by not offering concessions. (And I don’t mean city-run concessions, which would likely be poorly managed and lose money. I

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

7 months

I wish American parks departments weren’t so allergic to having concessions in urban parks.

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10 months

The reasons why Mayor Johnson is having such a hard time with the migrant issue are simple: 1. He has alienated anyone who is in a position to help him. 2. He has surrounded himself with people whose only qualifications are that they are ideologically aligned but who have no

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13 days

And there it is. Not only did Johnson lie a few weeks ago when he said he wouldn’t make cuts to public safety but everyone has to sacrifice so Stacy and Jackson can get fatter. Nothing he says from here on out should be trusted. He is unhinged, resentful, and we as a city are

@fspielman

Fran Spielman

13 days

Johnson cancels 2 months of police academy classes, orders layoff lists to cut $75M (Via Sun-Times)

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12 days

This “raggedy” cartoon is “jacked up” (and racist).

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1 month

Wow, what a blatant and easily disprovable lie. The cost is ~$10M/year and a drop in the bucket of the police budget. Also the city has barely spent half the $100M number Johnson quoted ($57.5M) since the program began in 2018. Johnson is a clown. We have the Worst Mayor in

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Mary Ann Ahern

@MaryAnnAhernNBC

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Mayor says Shot Spotter contract is “100M for walkie-talkies on a stick” and “this corporate group has failed to deliver” ⁦ @ChicagosMayor ⁩ ⁦ @ChiCouncil ⁩

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2 years

1. 9pm citywide curfew for unaccompanied minors, 8pm for downtown. 2. Any unaccompanied minor out past curfew given a court summons, where a parent must appear. 3. Police given green light to actually cuff and arrest lawbreaking minors. 4. Any arrest for criminal behavior

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13 days

I hope all our city workers understand that they will be asked to make sacrifices so that the teachers don’t have to.

@CrainsChicago

Crain's Chicago Business

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Johnson preparing for possible layoffs to close 2025 budget shortfall

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8 months

Chicago is starting to seem more like an Orwellian upside-down world with each passing day under Brandon Johnson. First, he decides to force schools to remove on campus CPD (despite those schools opting to have the police there) on the same day that two students are shot on

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8 months

Households need to earn less in Chicago to own a home than the national average. Half the income needed compared to places like Boston and NYC, and about a third compared to LA and SF. Chicago is the best value of any large city the US. “75% of NYC for 50% of the price.”

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11 days

What an absolute disaster the demonically name SAFE-T Act has been in its first year. 75% of defendants simply skip their court date knowing that there is no financial stake to lose by doing so and then the terrorists in the criminal justice system often end up dropping their

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12 days

Can you imagine the fiscal responsibility, economic growth, and boringly good governance we could have had if these two were still serving concurrently. 😔

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Governor JB Pritzker

12 days

Always great to catch up with the @USAmbJapan .

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28 days

In Chicago if you work for the Mayor and get caught calling cops “slave catchers” and “fucking pigs” you don’t get fired… you get a 50% raise!

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Alex Tamwicz

28 days

Kennedy Bartley now making $192,000 to do nothing. This is absolutely insane!

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4 months

Imagine being mayor of a major city and The Economist calling you stupid for the whole world to see. That’s gotta sting.

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7 months

“Released from prison yesterday” and already killed an 11yo and shot a pregnant woman. This is the Kim Foxx, Tim Evans, Toni Preckwinkle, “reimagining public safety” legacy.

@CPD1617Scanner

16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner

@CPD1617Scanner

7 months

2 people have been shot on the 5900 block of N Ravenswood. The offender is known, his name is Crosetti Brand and he was released from prison yesterday per scanner traffic. He is not in custody. One of the victims is 11 years old and one of the victims has been pronounced and is

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This man lies as easily as he breathes. Chicago schools are fully funded and Chicago spends FAR more per pupil than even the wealthiest suburbs. The problem with CPS is not of inadequate funding, it’s of horrendous mismanagement.

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@SigchoFor25

Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez for the 25th Ward

15 days

Where do you stand on the request from parents to fully fund our schools, like they enjoy in white-majority districts in IL? I caution white electeds threatening to undemocratically take local control of a majority Black and brown school district away from the local community.

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3 months

How does the Trump shooting affect Chicago? 1. Before it, I assumed a Trump victory would energize the left and breathe new life into the likes of Carlos Rosa, Rossana Sanchez, and BJ. Now, I think this effect will be muted. They will need to watch their words more closely and

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A.J. Manaseer

2 years

I have never seen so much bad press nationally for Chicago than what has resulted from this past weekend’s mayhem in probably my entire adult life. Take the pride of winning a national championship, but the inverse of that, is what it feels like. Shame, embarrassment,

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2 months

This was a mistake from JB. How ever much money Trump has, it is far more self-made than JB’s. You can’t brag about money you inherited. 👎🏼👎🏼

@Suntimes

Chicago Sun-Times

2 months

Pritzker on Trump: "Take it from an actual billionaire, Trump is rich in only one thing: stupidity" Read the full text of Gov. JB Pritzker’s speech to Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night:

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A.J. Manaseer

9 months

To my fellow Cook County voters: It’s time to push back against Toni Preckwinkle’s disastrous and continuous assaults on our criminal justice system. She is responsible for pressuring lawmakers to lessen punishment for minors resulting in skyrocketing carjackings and robberies.

@EileenCookCnty

Eileen O’Neill Burke

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9 months

I'm a Democrat, former prosecutor, defense attorney & judge who took on the Catholic Church to hold those who abused children accountable. I'm running for Cook County State's Attorney to go after illegal guns, prosecute violent crime & address the root causes like mental health.

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@ChicagoContrar1

Chicago Contrarian

@ChicagoContrar1

9 months

This arresting image perfectly captures why Chicago is in a terminal death spiral. Judging by Mr. Sigcho-Lopez's joyous celebration, one would think crime evaporated, lives were saved, taxes were low, and CPS schools functioned. The Gaza ceasefire measure accomplished nothing.

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A.J. Manaseer

9 months

So the open secret that half of Chicago has been gossiping about for months is finally out… Mayor Johnson has been suffering from stress-related panic attacks. This could bring about the first virtuous cycle Chicago has enjoyed in ages… Panic attacks ➡️ media reports it ➡️

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A.J. Manaseer

1 year

Welcome to Chicago, where our “leaders” find it funny when when we are robbed and carjacked.

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@StuLoren

Stuart Loren

1 year

Hilarious. I doubt many thought crime was funny before, and it certainly isn’t funny now. No matter where it occurs. Anyways, it won’t be so amusing to Ald. Taylor if the city’s tax base erodes. Chicago should thank the market gods that mortgage rates moved from 3% to 7.5%.

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I simply cannot fathom how we have a dozen high schools in Chicago at less than 20% utilization (one at 4%!) and with no prospects of turning around the enrollment declines, yet still no one in city government is discussing closing or consolidating these schools. This is should

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The CPS Board should summon the political courage to address the long-term drivers of our deficit. We should also be providing more integrated and supportive environments for kids to grow. Both of these challenges have the same solution: Consolidate empty schools. #twill

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A.J. Manaseer

11 months

Johnson’s tenure has been an unmitigated disaster and it’s going to keep getting worse. The guy is an unqualified, flimsily educated, inexperienced charlatan who is in way over his head and whose entire work history consisted of two no-show jobs (Cook Cty admin and union rep).

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A.J. Manaseer

1 month

Brandon Johnson’s personal police detail accounts for about 1.25% of Chicago’s total number of sworn officers. We all know that BJ is an atrociously bad mayor, possibly the worst to ever do it and certainly the worst of all sitting mayors nationwide, but why does he need

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@MorningAnswer

Morning Answer

2 months

Former @Chicago_Police Lieutenant for the 16th District, @JohnGarridoIII , recommends @ChicagosMayor Brandon Johnson consider giving up 100 of the 142 officers assigned to his security detail to work the CTA and improve safety in Chicago

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8 months

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@Suntimes

Chicago Sun-Times

8 months

NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson is spending $8.6 million to extend the city’s controversial deal with ShotSpotter for nine final months — shelling out significantly more than the city paid for the entire past year of service.

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A.J. Manaseer

8 months

I had the pleasure to hear Eileen O’Neill Burke speak today and I am further convinced she is our best immediate hope to make dramatic improvements in Chicago. Not only does she have a plan to fill the ~300 vacancies in the CCSA office (out of 700 positions), but she will

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A.J. Manaseer

11 months

You know what I am angry about, Stacy? The fact that our children’s test scores have plummeted since you and your cabal of extremists LARPing as revolutionary class warriors took over CTU. 😡 The fact that even though we spend more per student than most schools could dream

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⭐️ SDG ⭐️AKA Muse of Chicago Trib Editorial Board

@stacydavisgates

11 months

Someone needs to do a study on men and their anger.

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A.J. Manaseer

19 days

Is there a dumber road layout in the entire city of Chicago than this stretch of Division just west of the highway? First, a lane pinch crossing the canal bridge. Then another lane pinch crossing the river bridge. All leading up to the highway onramp, ensuring that you will sit

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A.J. Manaseer

7 months

Stunning. I’m not suggesting there is any impropriety at the Chicago Board of Elections, but having a guy so openly partisan running things seems like a very bad idea.

@CPD1617Scanner

16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner

@CPD1617Scanner

7 months

Hm... quite an interesting statement from the Board of Elections rep.

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A.J. Manaseer

7 months

Join me in counting down Kim Foxx’s last day in office. 🎊☺️🎊

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A.J. Manaseer

11 months

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Reports from Israel say that upon hearing that staffers in Chicago City Council have demanded a ceasefire, Netanyahu and Hamas leadership have decided to halt all hostilities. “When such an internationally respected figure such as the Chief of Staff for

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Erin Hegarty

11 months

This letter city staffers sent to Mayor Brandon Johnson and the City Council last week urging them to support a ceasefire in the Middle East now has support from 73 staffers from aldermanic offices, the mayor's office and city departments.

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A.J. Manaseer

5 months

This is insane. Notorious champion of criminals Kim Foxx has decided not to pursue crimes that are discovered as a result of a traffic stop. She is blatantly ignoring the law and her sworn duty in furtherance of her destructive ideology. The day she is finally out of office

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Silvana Tabares

@AldermanTabares

5 months

Soon to be ex-State’s Attorney @KimFoxx is drafting a blanket policy to deny ALL charges or ANY crime if it was discovered during a traffic stop. Below is my statement:

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A.J. Manaseer

1 month

This is truly insane. Not only is Johnson trying to fire Pedro in order to ram through his payday loan scheme to fund CTU’s every whim, but even the act of firing Pedro is going to cost the city big bucks. He is the worst mayor that has ever been elected to lead Chicago. He

@paschutz

Paris Schutz

1 month

BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson this week asked CPS CEO Pedro Martinez for his resignation and Martinez refused, according to multiple sources who spoke directly with Martinez. This sets up a potentially costly severance package for CPS if the board moves to terminate him.

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A.J. Manaseer

8 months

It goes without saying but Bring Chicago Home is terrible policy and progressives are playing with fire. Take a look at an example of an apartment building sold before and after the tax. People forget that 3% of the *gross* price can be upwards of 25% of the *net* profit. Now

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A.J. Manaseer

9 months

I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that we have the most incompetent mayor of any large city in the United States. Perhaps even any city in the United States.

@Austin__Berg

Austin Berg

9 months

NEW: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker reacts to news that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is telling aldermen that the city will stop setting up new migrant shelters. “I’m deeply concerned … the city has not told the state where they would like us to put our resources to build new

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A.J. Manaseer

2 years

If anyone in Illinois wants to really raise their blood pressure then take a look at this list of the highest pensions we pay out. #1 on the list: 💰Retired at 55 from UIC 💰$635K annual pension 💰$20.5M estimate lifetime payout 💰3.7% employee deposit of payout This list

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A.J. Manaseer

6 months

I’m still not over how Brandon Johnson spoke at an anti-police protest in front of a big red ‘DEFUND CPD’ banner and had the gall during the election to say “I said (defunding the police) was a political goal, I didn’t say it was *my* goal.” 🐂💩 And how does a socialist bend

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@MaryAnnAhernNBC

Mary Ann Ahern

@MaryAnnAhernNBC

6 months

Huesca’s mother said “tell the mayor not to come. We do not wan him there. Tomorrow is about my son and my family’s grief. We do not want him to disrespect his memory. The mayor does not support the police.” Mendoza relayed that information to the Mayor’s Chief (2/3)

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A.J. Manaseer

2 years

This is a must-watch video. Ja’mal is dragging CTU *hard* for their power-obsessed antics and every single thing he has said here is absolutely true. And let’s not even mention the insults and hate they have hurled his way for daring to support Vallas. This kid has got some

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A.J. Manaseer

4 months

I know someone trying to sell a condo right at Ground Zero of the Humboldt Park Tent City. How is it fair to work hard and save your money to buy a place, to pay high taxes year over year, only to have a huge chunk of the equity suddenly wiped out because what used to be a nice

@lacherbauer

Alexander Lacherbauer

4 months

So much talk about the need for third spaces for Chicago kids, and yet everyone in city government just ignores the homeless takeover of the northeast quadrant of Humboldt Park. This is unaccountable, please clean this up. @jessiefor26th @Ward26Chicago @ChicagoParks

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A.J. Manaseer

16 days

Tfw you discover a veto proof majority of the City Council is going to try and nuke your payday loan scheme that Stacy demanded of you.

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@MaryAnnAhernNBC

Mary Ann Ahern

@MaryAnnAhernNBC

16 days

NEW: Already 35 ⁦ @ChiCouncil ⁩ sign letter asking for hearing on ⁦ @ChiPubSchools ⁩ turmoil BEFORE next CPS meeting

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A.J. Manaseer

1 year

“The charges were dropped in November 2021.” “but the charges were eventually stricken last December.” “The charge was dropped days later.” “The charge was dismissed in January 2022.” “The case was dropped in February 2022.” A 19 year old has all these cases dropped in a

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Man w/o a Plan

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A young black female cop is likely dead because @SAKimFoxx office kept dropping charges on the suspect from his earlier run-in's with the law.

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A.J. Manaseer

1 year

As I warned a few weeks ago, we had better get used to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange becoming the Dallas Mercantile Exchange. Things in Chicago are on the verge of unwinding at a dizzying and terrifying pace while our mayor reminds everyone that “he’s not like other mayors”

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Stuart Loren

1 year

All that stands between CME remaining viable in Chicago is Gov Pritzker’s sanity - he appreciates that a financial transaction tax undermines the company’s margins and they’d re-domicile overnight. But what if the next governor doesn’t get it? Businesses need to contingency plan.

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2 years

Seen just now on the inbound 90/94… 🤷🏻‍♂️

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A.J. Manaseer

25 days

BS Lopez: “kids in Wilmette deserve the same education as kids in Chicago” My man, that would mean we’d have to cut 30% of the CPS budget. You’ve got a deal. 🤝🏼

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It is time for @GovPritzker and the Illinois State Board of Education to push for a State takeover of Chicago Public Schools. Johnson should never have been the one negotiating this contract given he is a captive of the Union. What Johnson is attempting now is completely

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Mary Ann Ahern

@MaryAnnAhernNBC

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Major upheaval expected at CPS School Board. They’re facing pressure from @ChicagosMayor to remove @PedroCPSCEO

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Well, wouldja look at that. Teachers in Illinois are the 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 when factoring in cost of living. Our leaders need to stop falling for their bullshit lament of being underpaid and understaffed. CPS gets better raises than almost anyone in

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Adjusted average teacher salary, taking into account cost of living. There's much less variability here, except for the extreme outlier of Hawaii, which is incredibly expensive and doesn't have great salaries. Low-CoL midwestern states do well.

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So Mayor Daley had 26 dedicated officers while Johnson has 142. I wonder how the progressives and socialists that support him would feel about him hoarding so many scarce city resources for himself. Or how the Defund the Police crowd who backed him would feel about him

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Molly

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@DanButtersChi @AJManaseer @LilyBeansDad Found this video explaining what they all do. Crazy.

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I think we should start bracing ourselves for the prospect that our woefully unqualified, in way over his head mayor will screw this up and that Chicago will lose the CME to Texas.

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Greg Abbott trying to lure CME out of Chicago

Texas will welcome any other Chicago firms "fed up" with crime and taxes, the governor says.

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2 months

Chicago’s comrades: “rents are too high and it’s because of greedy developers” Also Chicago’s comrades: “if you want to build this apartment building you’re going to have to pay this increased impact fee”

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Alderman Daniel La Spata

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Today, my ordinance on the Open Space Impact Fee (OSIF) was passed out of the Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation. I believe that this is the kind of innovative revenue solution Chicago needs.

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Make no mistake - this is shots fired at Brandon. Welcome to the Resistance, Toni!

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Toni Preckwinkle

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"This year’s $9.9 billion balanced budget and our strong financial position aren’t by chance. They are the product of smart policies year after year. We avoid using one-time revenues for recurring expenses, don’t borrow more than we need, and don’t spend more than we have."

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The cost for private developers to build a Class A luxury high rise in the West Loop: $445K per unit. The cost for government to build affordable housing in Auburn Gresham: $882K per unit.

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Another example of the govt costing more to do what the private sector should be doing. Govt shouldn't be doing this work. @chicagotribune @ChicagoContrar1 @BlockClubCHI @CWBChicago @Suntimes Invest South/West projects sky-high costs via @crainschicago

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It was never about ShotSpotter and its pluses and minuses. It was always about a deranged effort by the lunatic fringe that owns our empty vessel of a Mayor to oppose policing and law enforcement in all of its manifestations. These people are the enemies of civilized society.

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Chicago Contrarian

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Well, there you have it. Right from the Stop ShotSpotter Coalition. In their statement celebrating the end of ShotSpotter, the group admits their whole purpose is to target the "entire apparatus of policing," and how they want ShotSpotter money to go to grassroots groups.

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7 months

Chicago, we dodged a huge bullet by defeating BCH.

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What a breathtaking hypocrite. Here is a woman who makes $250K+ per year constantly running her mouth off about racism, sexism, and the evil rich not paying their fair share. Meanwhile she dodges taxes on her *second* home (how many does she have?) in addition to blocking

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Illinois Policy

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1 year

🚨BREAKING: Chicago Teachers Union chief @stacydavisgates takes a tax break on an Indiana home she doesn't live in. The break is for homeowners whose primary residence is in Indiana. She lives in Chicago. The "fair share" of her tax bill is 4 times higher than what she pays.

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This takes the cake for the most Chicago story ever. We’ve got: ❌Sham liability lawsuit resulting in millions paid out by taxpayers (she can’t walk and has 10/10 pain in her legs yet here she is traveling to Egypt and jumping for joy) 🤸🏿 ❌Crazy court system allowing her to

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CWBChicago

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Sandra Kolalou, sentenced to 56 years for murdering and butchering her landlord, won a $3 million lawsuit against the CTA while the murder case was pending. The suit proceeded under the name "Sandra White" due to the “strong prejudice against murderers”

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8 months

So far Mayor Johnson has criticized or alienated: 1. The President (while he’s asking him for help to pay for the migrants). 2. The Governor (while he’s asking him for help to pay for the migrants, school funding, and countless other matters). 3. The Real Estate Industry

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Gregory Royal Pratt

8 months

Jesus, this is brutal. Johnson’s admin told us we could have 20 minutes with him for 100 days then on fly dropped it to 10; the media relations problem continues and this one is worse.

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What’s worse? That a school with a capacity of 888 students is still open with only 35 students; or that its staff of 23 is going up to 32 while other full schools are losing staff? 32 staff for 35 students in a school that is 96% empty. CTU would rather ruin the entire city’s

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Karolína Muchová Fan Club

5 months

OMFG pt 2. Here's what Brandon is giving a school in his neighborhood: "Douglass High School in Austin—where just 35 students were enrolled this year—would get the largest increase. It's slated to add 9 people to its staff of 23." AYFKM @ChicagosMayor ?

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What kind of deranged reaction is this? We’re talking about a piece of shit that killed 4 helpless people while they slept and our worthless Mayor is blathering on about “investing in people.” More weaponized, misplaced empathy from him and his psychopathic ilk. What a

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CWBChicago

2 months

Dear @ChicagosMayor : Murder victims are people, too.

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3 years

@moondancesadie @stevenmazie Name another group besides landlords, most of whom are struggling themselves, that are forced by the government to give away their product for free and relinquish all their property rights.

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2 months

Terrifying little fact tucked into this article. Our property taxes have more than doubled in the past 10 years and we are even worse off in regards to the pensions.

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Chicago Tribune

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2 months

Chicago is staring down a $982.4 million shortfall next year, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration projected in a grim preview of the upcoming budget season.

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A.J. Manaseer

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I’ve read this 3 times and I can’t understand it. What relevance is a “wholesale community marketplace on the South side” (whatever that is, a flea market maybe?) to a company in London? This whole junket is a total waste. World Business Chicago should know better.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson

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We are letting our London partners know that Chicago is open for business and possibilities, like a wholesale community marketplace on the South or Southwest side, which we explored with global leaders in economic and public market development, management and food distribution.

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Justice has been served today. The Bring Chicago Home campaign, from its origin, was based in deception. There simply are not 68,000 homeless in Chicago. Brandon Johnson’s own government has counted 6,139 homeless people in Chicago - just 9% of what BCH claims. This is because

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Chicago Sun-Times

8 months

JUST IN: A Cook County judge Friday struck a referendum question funding homelessness prevention in Chicago via a real estate transfer tax increase from the March primary ballot.

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8 months

CHICAGO: Look at what is coming. CTU is not going to stop until they bankrupt this city. Send them a message on March 19th by voting NO on Bring Chicago Home and for Eileen O’Neill Burke. It is critically important to reject Clayton Harris - aka CTU’s and Preckwinkle’s

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Illinois Policy

@illinoispolicy

8 months

🚨BREAKING: Leaked 142-page list of Chicago Teachers Union demands approved by delegates. Last week, Stacy Davis Gates said it would cost $50 billion. Some thought it was a joke. But it could cost even more. Let's dive in. 👀

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2 years

You hear that sucking sound, Chicago? That is the sound of hugely important businesses getting ready to swiftly bounce out of town if Brandon Johnson is the next mayor. If it’s not the ill-advised new taxes it will be the enabling and excusing of criminals like juvenile

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Crain's Chicago Business

2 years

CME Group's CEO told Chicago's mayor to deal with rising violence and that was before his wife was recently carjacked.

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A.J. Manaseer

8 months

Spoke to a fairly prolific Chicago developer today and heard some interesting things about building apartments in Chicago that I didn’t know about: ⚡️100% of parking spots must be wired for EVs 🔌 New buildings must be all electric with no natural gas heat or cooking (I thought

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@SigchoFor25 This man is lying. Chicago schools are fully funded and Chicago spends FAR more per pupil than even the wealthiest suburbs.

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2 years

List of false statements so far by Brandon Johnson: ❌ “I never said I want to defund the police.” (He has, many times) ❌ “We spend more on prisons than schools” (CPS budget is 4X entire CPD budget) ❌ “We spend more per capita on police than anywhere on earth” (Not even in the

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11 days

Remember when Brandon was talking about opening city-run grocery stores? One of the most difficult industries on earth… but Brandon and his crack team of socialist 26yo barristas turned senior policy advisors and various relatives of Carlos Rosa would have pulled it off?

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The Criminal’s Paradise, otherwise known as Cook County: Where you can commit 3 felonies in 5 months *while on parole*, and still not be sent to jail! What. A. Fucking. Joke.

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CWBChicago

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Prosecutors say he stole two ATMs while on parole and on pretrial release for another burglary attempt. The state *still* isn't revoking his parole.

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A.J. Manaseer

7 months

The other *huge* implication of tonight’s results: Brandon Johnson better watch his ass when it comes to the upcoming CTU negotiations. CTU’s reign of terror over this city was soundly rebuked tonight. Chicago is not going to accept giving away the house to Stacy Davis Gates

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A.J. Manaseer

2 years

Johnson, for the past 3 years: “I will defund the police and raise taxes.” Chicago voters: “Oh that’s no good, we can’t have that!” Johnson on April 3rd: “OK then I won’t defund police or raise taxes.” Chicago voters: “Oh good, see, he said he won’t. I believe him now.”

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Curtis Houck

2 years

Chicago mayor-elect invokes Michael Brown as proof that more police won't work and all but tells 'CBS Mornings' that he won't be giving police more funding, saying there needs to be "[f]irst responders, social workers, counselors, EMT[s]" need to show up to crime scenes

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A.J. Manaseer

1 month

Ray Lopez filing a motion to get Kennedy Bartley and Andrea Kersten’s salaries reduced to $1 is the kind of tactic I can appreciate 😂

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Ald. Raymond Lopez

1 month

If the administration won’t hold its employee accountable for their inflammatory actions, City Council must take action!

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A.J. Manaseer

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams is going to go down for a measly $100K worth of airline tickets. Is it possible that Brandon Johnson could outdo him and get tripped up for an even measlier sum? Every day that passes I feel less and less confident that Johnson will finish out his term…

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nick kokonas

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A saying we have at our companies is “every dollar spends the same.” Spending $80k unnecessarily here, there, and everywhere ultimately leads to “real” money. And reflects the underlying attitude of this admin. Don’t question anything.

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A.J. Manaseer

2 months

CTU: “we will sue JPMorgan for giving us high interest predatory loans” Also CTU: “we want Pedro fired for not allowing us to take out more high interest predatory loans”

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Paris Schutz

2 months

Aldermen react to reports of Chicago mayor pushing CPS CEO out: 'Not a good idea'

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7 months

This is incredible. Chicago Public School teachers are brainwashing these students and dragging them out of class to vote for their pet causes. This should be a huge scandal. (But we all know it won’t be). The CTU is truly disgusting. There is not a single redeeming quality

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Austin Berg

7 months

Reporter: “Did your teachers encourage you to vote for [Bring Chicago Home].” CPS student: “Yes.” This is a clear violation of the district’s ethics policy and warrants an immediate investigation. The Chicago Teachers Union and Brandon Johnson must be held accountable. This

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Holy shit. I read this as a threat by State lawmakers to intervene in CPS. It cannot be understated what a truly epic fuckup Brandon and Stacy have engineered. 20 years of union progress and goodwill from elected officials far and wide has evaporated. WELL DONE @ChicagosMayor

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Capitol Fax

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"The level of state oversight necessary for the district will be informed by the decisions made by the Mayor and his administration in the coming weeks and months. I will continue to talk with Chicago families and my colleagues to evaluate what additional guardrails may be needed

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$280M is being invested by the State and Feds to launch the quantum computing revolution in Chicago. This industry is going to touch everything we do and pave the way for untold new technological discoveries. And it’s capitol city will be Chicago. I don’t think it’s an

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A.J. Manaseer

3 months

🚨TOTAL CHICAGO VICTORY🚨 Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. Good work @GovPritzker ! 🫡

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These are some fantastic ideas for Michigan Ave by Gensler. In this situation, the anti-car people are right. Michigan Ave should be turned into a giant, pedestrianized mall kind of like Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade, full of cafes and seating. It sucks to drive on

@CrainsChicago

Crain's Chicago Business

3 months

Cut traffic, connect to the lake to reboot Mag Mile: study

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A.J. Manaseer

3 months

Good work, @AldermanReilly 🫡 (This happened because Reilly reminded the Mayor that the rules require 35 votes in favor instead of a simple majority).

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2 years

Are we still deluding ourselves that hundreds of teens fighting and vandalizing cars for the second consecutive night is just “kids having fun”?

@CPD1617Scanner

16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner

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2 years

Security at the Art Institute of Chicago @artinstitutechi says a large group of teens were trying to push themselves into the museum #ChicagoScanner

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A.J. Manaseer

9 months

In Illinois if you are awaiting trial for murder you will be released with an ankle bracelet and given 2 days per week of unmonitored free movement. (Just enough time to commit more violent felonies!) This is what we mean when we say our politicians show preference to criminals

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Ben Bradley

9 months

WGN Investigates has learned one of the men now charged in a shoot-out in the south suburbs last week was free electronic monitoring while awaiting trial for *murder.* @WGNNews

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A.J. Manaseer

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Prediction time: Donald Trump is going to win, and it’s not going to be close. Democrats sealed their fate the moment Biden took the debate stage and revealed that the man they insisted could serve 4 more years clearly cannot. They further sealed their fate by, without a

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A.J. Manaseer

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Nice. Cool. Johnson’s first recipient of his housing bond money is famed developer Corinthian Temple Church of God in Christ who will be constructing a 44-unit building in the city’s posh west side for the low price of $718,181 per unit. (By comparison you could simply buy an

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A.J. Manaseer

2 years

2. The strategy of raising taxes on a shrinking tax base is going to backfire. There is no way mathematically that Johnson’s tax plans will be sustainable or revenue positive long term. Chicago will suffer budget shortfalls and bond rating downgrades. Hopefully, the City Council

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A.J. Manaseer

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“I traded speed for accuracy” he says as we still await results 5 days later of a historically low turnout election. Pretty hilarious how we trade speed for accuracy in Chicago and get neither. Incompetence at every level of government.

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